Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) and ACG Worldwide (ACG) & SciTech (SciTech Centre) is pleased
to collaborate in announcing awards for the best innovations in the development of Solid Dosage
Forms and packaging of pharmaceuticals of the year.

These awards will be given to either an Individual / or a group/ or a company, who/which has made a
significant contribution towards obtaining a better understanding into the development and/or for
developing unique oral solid dosage forms, such as tablets, capsules, pellets, sprinkles, granules, sachets
etc. and for developing unique packaging of pharmaceutical formulations.

The purpose of these awards is to encourage and recognise an individual or a group or a company for
efforts in bringing innovative solid dosage formulations and packaging of pharmaceuticals formulations.

Award categories:

1) Best Innovative Development of a Solid Dosage Form of the year
2) Best Innovative Packaging of Pharmaceutical Formulations

OBJECTIVE

a) To recognize outstanding contributions in the development of solid dosage forms
b) To promote innovations in packaging of Pharmaceutical Formulations

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

An individual/a group/a company meeting the below mentioned criteria may apply for the award.

1 Best Innovative Development of Solid Dosage Form of the year : a) The development should be innovative with creativity
b) The innovation should be fundamental yet practical
c) The nominee should provide characteristic features of the innovative Solid Dosage Form, along with documentary evidence for its stability and uniqueness
d) The innovation should address an unmet scientific need related to Indian population/a disease or meeting special demands of the region

2 Best Innovative Packaging of Pharmaceutical Formulations :
a) Should possess unique features
b) The packaging should be innovative with creativity.
c) The nominee should provide the characteristic features of the packaging
d) Suggestive or implemented packaging system should increase the quality of medicine for better therapeutic benefits.
e) Documentary evidence should be provided to prove that the medicinal product remains stable for the expected shelf life mentioned on the label in new package.

Awards: Each award carries a Memento and a Cash award of Rs. 100,000/‐

Specific eligibility criteria:

Nomination of candidate/s –An individual can send only one nomination for each category but a group or a company may file up to a maximum of two nominations in each category with the following details.
a) Detailed bio-data / company introduction
b) Statement of purpose with description of the innovation
c) Two dummy samples of the package
d) Name and contact details along with mailing address
e) Person of any age can apply
f) Office bearers of IPA Center and employees of ACG Worldwide are not eligible to apply for the award.

Selection of award

An Award Committee constitued with experts will decide the awardees based on a set of criteria and evaluation parameters. All deliberations will be in private and IPA will not disclose the reasons for an Award being declined. Any attempt to canvas directly or indirectly with members of the committee will disqualify the nomination. The committee’s decision on all matters will be final.

Last date of submission of nomination is 15th October 2017

A hard copy of the nominations for the awards may please be sent to,
The Member Secretary, IPA ACG-SCITECH Awards Committee Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai - 400 098

A soft copy of nominations shall be sent on ipacentre@ipapharma.org with a caption IPA ACG – SCITECH Awards.

1. Best Innovative Development of Solid Dosage Form Award for the year 2016 - Rubicon Research Pvt. Ltd.
2. Best Innovative Packaging for Solid Dosage Form Award for the year 2016 - Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited
3. Special Recognition in Best Innovative Development of Solid Dosage Form Award for the year 2016 - Anand Pharmacy College

1. Best Innovative Development of Solid Dosage Form Award for the year 2017 - Jamia Hamdard Institute of Chemical Technology.
2. Best Innovative Packaging for Solid Dosage Form Award for the year 2017 - Abbott Healthcare (P) Ltd.